Shoe-polisher.



No- 827,933. PATENTED AUG. 7, 1906.

W. P. MfiLLER & G. BLUMEL.

.7 SHOE POLISHER.

APPLIOATION FILED FEB. 23. 1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM P. MULLER AND CHARLES BLUMEL, OF PHILADELPHIA,

PENNSYLVANIA.

SHOE-POLISHER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

- Patented Aug. 7, 1906.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, WILLIAM P. Mi'ILLER and CHARLES BLUMEL, citizens of the United States, residing at Philadel hia, county of Philadelphia, and State 0 Pennsylvania, have invented a certaininew and useful Improvement in Shoe-Polishers, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to a new and useful improvement in shoe-polishers, and has for its object to provide a cheap, simple, and effective device for holding and guiding a strip of cloth for polishing shoes, the same to be made from a single piece of wire, so bent as to prevent the rumpling of the cloth and provide a foot-piece and toe-strip.

With these ends in view this invention consists in the details of construction and combination of elements hereinafter set forth and then specifically designated by the claims.

In order that those skilled in the art to which this invention appertains may understand how to make and use the same, we will describe its construction in detail, referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a perspective of our im roved device; Fig. 2, a side elevation thereo In carrying out our invention we take a single piece of wire and so bend it as to produce the foot-rest A, the forward end of which is turned up, as indicated at B, so as to serve as a toe stop and gage for placing the foot in proper position upon the device. The wire is then bent, so as to produce the side stays C and the guides D, the spaces between these stays and guides being only of suflicient width to permit the insertion and movement of a cloth of one thickness, but not of sufficient width to permit the cloth to become.

creased or rumpled. The side stays and guide-strips are curved upward at their meeting ends, as indicated at E, the object of which is to prevent the cloth from sag ing downward orrunning onto the floor w on passing ofi the toe of the shoe, it being understood that when the cloth is being used upon the extreme end of the shoe that part thereof which does not bear upon the shoe will ride upward in the spaces between the portions of the stays and guide-wires, and thus be held out of contact with the floor.

In practice the device is placed upon the floor or other suitable surface and the foot placed upon the foot-rest A, after which the strip of clothis threaded under the guides D by passing it under the rear ends of said guides, which are slightly turned outward, as indicated at F, for that purpose. Now by drawing the cloth rapidly to and fro the shoe will be polished with but little effort upon the part of the operator.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new and useful is 1. As a new article of manufacture, a shoepolisher consisting of a single piece of wire so bent as to produce a foot-rest, a toe-stop, side stays and guides, as specified.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a shoepolisher consisting of a single piece of wire so bent as to produce a foot-rest having a toestop, side stays and guide-wires, the latter in such relation to each other as to produce a narrow space therebetween, as and for the purpose set forth.

3. A shoeolisher consisting of a foot-rest, a toe-stop formed with said rest, side stays having their outer ends bent upward, guides formed with the side stays having their corresponding ends also bent upward and curved sections formed upon the opposite ends of the uides for facilitating the threading of the 0 0th to be used in polishing the shoe, as specified.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto affixed our signatures in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM P. MULLER. CHARLES BLUIWEL. Witnesses:

MARY E. HAMER, S. S. WILLIAMSON 

